M Quotes
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“My inspiration is love and history.”
“My inspiration is my hometown.”
“My inspiration is my hometown. I feel that because I'm representing my very overlooked region of Virginia, I have to keep accomplishing my goals to show everyone there that you can truly become whatever you believe with hard work and dedication.”
“My inspiration is my life, what I see happening around me. It can be history and, quite often, plain traditional fairy tales. But I never adapt; I nourish myself with old stories, and then create my own tales.”
“My inspiration is not only based on the theoretical work which is very conservative but also based on the Research work which is very broader aspect, In the state of mind I've learn basic facts from research and i am feeling proud that almost i have completed four researches in my life”
“My inspiration is really very simple: I'm struck by things that I want to know more about. I really do react just as a curious person: who is this person? What's the story behind this situation? Why do people like this or dislike this thing?”
“My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.”
“My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.”
“My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.”
“My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.”
“My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.”
“My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.”
“my inspired heart will create beauty in rebellion… we need art and words and songs… someone, somewhere is barely hanging on, and something beautiful will be their lighthouse.”
“My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my Instagram posts in my art is not about taking my personal Instagram and making it public; it's about understanding and challenging the notion of these free platforms that encourage self-promotion and understanding what they are technically and culturally.”
“My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.”
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
“My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.”
“My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.”
Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts
“My instinct is saying its not over, but your adamant it is, what do I trust?”
“My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.”
“My instinct is to be very controlling.”
“My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker the canvas, the easier it is to project the illusion of a character onto it. I think there are many actors who do that very successfully.”
“My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone.”
“My instinct tells me "purpose" is maybe the enemy of a good personal essay. In my own experience, I'm always lost and wandering and searching - where am I? how'd I get in this mess? what's the point? - right through to the final draft, and sometimes even beyond that - baffled and defeated still, confused as to purpose long after the thing's in print. I never really have a guiding purpose or a point, not at the outset, anyway. It's like life: It's all discovered en route.”
“My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy discourages this. They feel your gun should rarely, if ever, be brought out of its holster. Most certainly not when children are involved, which is exactly when I saw myself using my gun most often. A truant teenager loitering outside a movie theater is going to be far more motivated to return to school when he has the barrel of a .45 pressed against his cheek.”
“My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.”
“My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things”
“My instincts are not comedic.”
“My instincts told me that death would somehow be…different. But my rational mind reminded me that I had probably tempted fate one too many times. At least, I thought it was my rational mind. It sure seemed like the usual voice inside my head. Thank God there was only one of them.”
Source: Relativity
“My instincts told me to run.
So I did—right over to Gabi.”
Source: Sal and Gabi Break the Universe
“My instructions are disobeyed, my reputation has been irreversibly damaged, and my office wallpaper has been ruined.”
Source: Ten Second Staircase
“My instrument is the studio. When I play my instrument, I'm creating music using the studio. All the other instruments serve it.”
“My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?”
“My integrity refuses to be altered to fit in with what I'm expected or intimidated to believe.”
“My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.”
“My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.”
“My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.”
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
“My intellect is a wonderful thing and it is helpful, but I now see that there is another, deeper place of intelligence within me—and everyone else. Once we tap into it we can begin to transform our lives.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to the high-achieving, academic public high school.”
Source: Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky
“My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.”
“My intent for EPs - and, really, my philosophy on my music - is that every single song has to be worth it.”
“My intent in this book, however, is not just to take a balanced approach between repeating the traditional narratives from the inside and criticizing them from the outside. Rather, my emphasis will be on gleaning what remains viable and valuable in the traditional teachings of Zen after they have been put through the crucible of modern criticism and, moreover, as they are in the process of being transplanted into a modern Western cultural context. I am not just interested in academically learning about Zen; I am also—and, indeed, most of all—interested in personally learning from Zen.”
Source: Zen Pathways: An Introduction to the Philosophy and Practice of Zen Buddhism
“My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.”
Source: Confessions of a Public Speaker
“My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.”
“My intent is to speak on behalf of those whose voices are less readily heard - children and women at risk”
“My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.”
“My Intent today is to expand the flow of abundance through the energy of gratitude.”
“My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.”
“My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.”
“My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart.”
“My intention for my life is to stay centered, and from that intention come my priorities: my son, my family, my job, my self. That then informs what kind of work I can take on. It's a balancing act, but a fun one.”